Cancelled Judgement Day
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Harold Camping has set a new date for the
Judgement Day, several news sites
reported today.
According to
reports,
Camping, whose
Judgement Day prophecy on
May 21 went unfulfilled, said that the date was a miscalculation. He reportedly said that he now believes that his forecast actually occurred "spiritually," and the actual apocalypse will happen five months later, on
October 21, 2011.
God did "bring judgement on the world,"
Camping reportedly said on
Saturday.
"We have to be looking at all of this a little bit more spiritual, but it won't be spiritual on Oct. 21,"
Camping was quoted saying. "Because the Bible clearly teaches that then the world is going to be destroyed altogether."
Furthermore,
Camping said that the apocalypse did not occur on May 21 because a "merciful and compassionate God" spared humanity from "hell on Earth for five months." However, he insisted that
October 21 has always been a part of his prediction, and that day will be the final day of the apocalypse when the world will come to an end.
10DailyThings.com
AP – Harold Camping speaks during a taping of his show 'Open Forum' in Oakland, Calif., Monday, May 23, 2011. …
By GARANCE BURKE, Associated Press Garance Burke, Associated Press – Tue May 24, 3:56 am ET
OAKLAND, Calif. – A California preacher who foretold of the world's end only to see the appointed day pass with no extraordinarily cataclysmic event has revised his apocalyptic prophecy, saying he was off by five months and the Earth actually will be obliterated on Oct. 21.
Harold Camping, who predicted that 200 million Christians would be taken to heaven Saturday before catastrophe struck the planet, apologized Monday evening for not having the dates "worked out as accurately as I could have."
He spoke to the media at the Oakland headquarters of his Family Radio International, which spent millions of dollars_ some of it from donations made by followers - on more than 5,000 billboards and 20 RVs plastered with the Judgment Day message.
The globe will be completely destroyed in five months, he said, when the apocalypse comes. But because God's judgment and salvation were completed on Saturday, there's no point in continuing to warn people about it, so his network will now just play Christian music and programs until the final end on Oct. 21.